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A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure.

I’ve spent the last few years working with poor people advocating for change. Seeing their resilience firsthand, I feel hopeful.

In this season of giving, tax laws designed to support charities may actually protect billionaire wealth — at our expense.

The watershed agreements America’s auto workers won could inspire working people here and abroad. And that’s by design.

President Biden is cracking down on deceptive fees that cost American consumers tens of billions of dollars a year.

Millions of innocent Gazans are in danger. Half are children who’ve lived through five wars already.

Sixty years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, our racial economic divide is vast as ever. But it can still be closed — and quickly.

Pandemic-era gains have transformed the job market for disabled workers — and everyone else. Let’s protect that progress.

Congress spent the last “military spending” debate rehashing the culture wars — not the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget itself.

America’s farmers are aging. To avoid a crisis, we need to lower the economic barriers of entry for young farmers.

Most of us understand the need to cut carbon emissions. But a huge share of our tax dollars are funding the most carbon-intensive institution on the planet.

One state’s “Baby Bonds” program should be a model for the whole country.

If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?

The book bans, censorship, and attacks on LGBTQ kids that the GOP calls “parents rights” are way out of step with American families.

The MAGA bargain goes something like this: If we hurt other people worse, is it ok if we hurt you, too?

Looking at gun manufacturing rather than just gun ownership can help break down our status quo red-blue divide.

The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.

For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.

The president’s plan for jobs, families, and health reflects the things most of us value. But it should spend more on those and less on the Pentagon.

Following derailments across the country, rail workers have a solution to the nation’s rail crisis: public ownership.